Moderators: is it possible to remove the restrictions on message length? It's annoying when I've typed a message and it's a few words over, and I've got to spend ages editing it to turn "it is" into "it's" and "you are" into "you're" and making minor changes just to reduce the number of words. I've sometimes just trashed my whole reply because I haven't got time to edit it. If I really want to post all my words I'll just post the message in two halves anyway, so the word restriction isn't reducing the number of words I post, it's just a hassle. Thanks for considering this proposal :)

Most people do the latter - spread the message over two posts.